Moray Williams’s most celebrated books, Adventures of the Little Wooden Horse (1938) and Gobbolino the Witch’s Cat (1942), take place in an imaginary location corresponding to somewhere in Northern…

The art of Maeve Gilmore and Mervyn Peake, married writer-artists who moved from house to house many times in the course of their lives together, had a tendency to burst out of formal spaces (studi…

In 1984, Anthony Burgess published Ninety-Nine Novels, a selection of his favourite novels in English since 1939. The list is typically idiosyncratic, and shows the breadth of Burgess’s interest in fi...

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Some of my blog posts begin in one place and end somewhere completely different. This is a case in point. I started writing with the intention of talking about Mervyn Peake’s picture book Letters f…

The peculiar properties of colonial space Fantasy was born in Oxford. There the mathematician Charles Dodgson devised the adventures of Alice underground, the precursor to Alice in Wonderland, as h…

[This essay-review by my mother, Elizabeth Maslen, was published in the journal Science Fiction Studies in 1987. My father worked on it with her, as linguistic adviser for Czech, Polish and Russian…

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In about 1984, at the age of twenty-one or twenty-two, I had thoughts of trying my luck as an illustrator. Unfortunately I’d concentrated nearly all my efforts up to that point on black-and-white p…

[My mother, who died in September, was interested in death for much of her life. She wrote a number of poems on the subject in the 1970s, some of which were published by Chatto and Windus in a book…

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Ruth M. Arthur, The Saracen Lamp, review

World Fantasycon ahoy! This time next week, the world(s) of Fantasy descend on Brighton for World Fantasy Convention 2025. Your GSFWC pals'll be along, speaking on injuries in genre, *not* kicking...

[My mother, Elizabeth Maslen, passed away peacefully on the weekend of 27-28 September 2025, a little after her 90th birthday. Here’s a brief biography, supplementing the one you can find on the we…